These blooming stalks that grow from garlic bulbs are a delicious and versatile ingredient to use in various recipes.

Garlic scapes are the tender stem and flower bud of a hardneck garlic plant. (Hardneck garlic is the kind of garlic that typically grows in Canada and the northeastern U.S.) Scapes first grow straight ...

Hardneck garlic varieties produce large, easy to peel bulbs that have dramatic and distinctive flavors. They tend to produce fewer but larger cloves per bulb than softneck varieties and are ...

They tend to produce fewer but larger cloves per bulb than softneck varieties and are characterized by a woody central flower stem or scape. Hardneck garlic requires exposure to a period of cold ...

In the Western world, we typically buy and use garlic in the form of bulbs. While garlic bulbs are available year-round, in spring, you may find garlic scapes—the curly, thin shoots that grow from the ...

There are two main types of garlic: hardneck and softneck. Hardneck varieties, such as 'Romanian Red' and 'German Extra Hardy', form a flower stalk or scape in spring that can be harvested and eaten.

Garlic types fall into either hardneck or softneck varieties. Hardneck varieties do well in colder climates. They have a flower stalk called a scape and are referred to as “bolting” varieties.

Garlic can be broken down into two categories, hardneck and softneck varieties. Hardneck varieties produce a flower stalk called a scape. Many believe they are most closely related to wild garlic.

“Oh, that miracle clove! Not only does garlic taste good, it cures baldness and tennis elbow, too.”—Laurie Burrows Grad Can you believe this weather? It was nearly 80 degrees this past ...

One of my favorite episodes of the vegetable gardening year is when my wife Suzanne and I go out in October to plant the next ...